2009 Massereene Barracks shooting

The 2009 Massereene Barracks shooting was a Real IRA ambush that occurred on 7 March 2009 in Massereene, County Antrim, Northern Ireland. Two off-duty British Army soldiers of the British 19th Light Brigade, sappers Patrick Azinkar and Mark Quinsey, were ambushed by IRA guerrillas at 9:40 PM near the Massereene Barracks and killed, while two other soldiers and two delivery men were injured. The attack marked the most intensive period of the republican campaign since the start of the dissident republican uprising in 1997, and the sappers were the first British casualties in Northern Ireland since then.